From Reflection to Action: Achieving CHRO Goals in 2025
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In 2025, Chief Human Resource Officers (CHROs) are navigating a rapidly changing workplace landscape. A recent SHRM survey of 212 CHROs highlights the top priorities for the year: leadership and manager development, change and organization design, and employee experience.
Leadership and Manager Development
More than half of CHROs (51%) prioritize developing leaders who can drive organizational success. This involves creating programs that align with business goals, identifying future leaders, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation. As you reflect on your own organization, consider these questions:
- How can you enhance leadership development programs to ensure they align with your broader business objectives? What steps can you take to identify and nurture future leaders?
- What initiatives can you implement to foster a culture of innovation among your leadership ranks? How can you encourage continuous learning and adaptability in this group?
Change and Organization Design
Thirty percent (30%) of CHROs focus on adapting organizational structures to meet strategic goals. This requires being agile in response to market shifts and ensuring that changes support broader business objectives. Ask yourself:
- How prepared is your organization to adapt quickly to changing market conditions? What strategies can you implement to enhance agility and responsiveness?
- Are your organizational design changes aligned with overall business goals? How can you work more closely with other executive leaders to ensure strategic alignment?
Employee Experience
Twenty-eight (28%) percent of CHROs prioritize improving employee experience to boost performance and retention. This involves focusing on well-being, mental health, and work-life balance, as well as personalizing experiences to meet individual needs. Consider:
- What initiatives can you implement to prioritize employee well-being and mental health in your organization? How can you tailor experiences to meet diverse employee needs?
- How are you currently using data analytics to understand and improve employee experience? What metrics can you leverage to inform decisions and enhance engagement?
Preparing for 2025
As you look ahead to 2025, it's essential to reflect on your current strategies and consider what actions you need to take to prepare for these priorities. Ask yourself:
- What are the biggest challenges you face in implementing these priorities, and how can you address them?
- How can you leverage technology, such as AI, to support your HR initiatives and enhance productivity?
- What partnerships or collaborations can you form with other departments or external partners to drive success in these areas?
By reflecting on these questions and taking proactive steps to address them, you can position your organization for long-term success in a rapidly evolving business environment.
Don’t forget to tap into your peers at PSPS to learn what they are doing to address these priorities in their organizations. There are many ways to do that:
- Volunteer with us or Join a Committee
- Come to our April Social
- Join a Role Based Roundtable
- Sign up for our next program – The Power of Appreciation
Gratefully,
Please feel free to reach out with questions or feedback.
Join Us in Making a Difference: PSPS Community Project for Covenant House PA on March 21st
At PSPS, our Community Connections & Inclusion Committee is dedicated to fostering collaboration and building a strong sense of belonging through meaningful community engagement. We are excited to partner with local non-profit organizations to create positive change, and we invite you to join us in our new partnership with Covenant House PA.
Why Covenant House? Covenant House PA, based in Philadelphia, is a non-profit organization committed to providing shelter, support, and a pathway forward for youth facing homelessness. For over 25 years, they have been offering a safe haven, meals, and vital social services to young people in need.
Project Details: We are working together to transform a space for Covenant House staff - a multi-purpose room that will serve as a central hub for training, workshops, lunch breaks, and new hire orientations. This room will become a welcoming, functional, and dignified area to support the amazing work of the Covenant House team.
How You Can Get Involved:
- Donate Your Time: Join us on March 21st from 9:00-11:00 am to help set up the new multi-purpose room, followed by lunch. The Covenant House is located at 31 E. Armat Street, Philadelphia. Click here to register to attend.
- Donate Your Dollars: You can also contribute by purchasing items or gift cards from the project wishlist, which will go directly towards supporting the creation of this space.
By participating, you'll be helping create an inviting environment that enhances both the staff experience and the quality of care provided to youth in need. Thank you for strengthening our community ties and making a lasting impact.
PSPS Sponsor Spotlight
Juno Search Partners is a women-founded and women-led talent solutions firm dedicated to connecting the right people with the right kind of place. With a collaborative team of experienced sourcers and recruiters, Juno specializes in helping growing companies build their workforce through custom-built recruitment solutions. The firm has extensive experience placing accounting, administrative, finance, human resources, legal, marketing, talent acquisition, and tech candidates nationwide.
By offering a range of service solutions—including contingent search, retained search, contractor placement, executive search, custom RPO talent solutions, and payroll services—Juno provides organizations with the talent they need, delivered in a way that aligns with their business goals.
Member In Transition Highlight
At PSPS we have a forum for members in a career transition looking for support in best positioning themselves in the market. This informal “advisory board” provides collaborative support during the transition process along with regular lead sharing. For more information, check out the Career Transition Group section of our website.
This month, we want to highlight one of our members actively looking for his next adventure! This month's featured member: Daniel Hoffmaster
Tell us about your background and experience.
I'm a talent management leader with deep experiences in talent strategy, leading global teams, learning and leadership development, organizational effectiveness, succession planning, performance management, engagement, culture, assessment, coaching and internal mobility. I've worked in a variety of roles from learning, talent technologies and operations, program and project management, organizational effectiveness and talent partners at TE Connectivity, Weight Watchers International, and Guardian Life Insurance. I was most recently the VP, Talent & Organizational Capability at Quaker Houghton.
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What is your superpower?
Bringing together multiple stakeholder groups to align around a path forward and getting it done. I love to be involved in the complex, ugly, complicated projects that can have a huge positive impact on the organization.
What are your target toles?
Director / Senior Director / VP of Talent Management, Organizational Effectiveness, Performance & Culture, Talent Partner, Learning & Leadership Development
What value do you get from PSPS?
The ability to collaborate and reach out to an amazing network of talented HR leaders to discuss the opportunities and issues we're facing, share ideas and solutions and truly help each other make a bigger impact. The professional development workshops and networking events are a great place to learn and grow.
What do you enjoy most about the Transition Group?
The willingness of people to help each other is fantastic. There is nothing better than helping to make a connection/phone call/email that can help someone in the group get closer to landing that role.
What do you do in your spare time?
All things Philadelphia professional sports when I have time between running my two kids to practice, games, competitions, etc. My children, are exactly two years apart and share the same birthday.
Upcoming Events
We have a lot of great events coming up over the next 2 months, including our exciting Volunteer opportunity noted above and our Spring Social.
Check out the Events section of our website for more information. Here are a few highlights for you to consider with links to register:
HR Business Partner Roundtable 3/19/2025
Head of HR Roundtable 3/21/2025
HR/TA Consultants Roundtable 3/25/2025
Executive/Leadership Coaches Roundtable 3/27/2025
Talent Acquisition Roundtable 4/8/2025
PSPS Transition Group 4/8/2025
HR Business Partner Roundtable 4/16/2025
Spring Pay-As-You-Go Happy Hour 4/16/2025
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